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We present core aspects of a fully implemented generation component in a multilingual speech- to-speech dialogue translation system. Its de- sign was particularly influenced by the neces- sity of real-time processing and usability for multiple languages and domains. We devel- oped a general kernel system comprising a mi- croplanning and …...

We present an approach to anaphora resolution based on a focusing algorithm, and implemented within an existing MUC (Message Understand- ing Conference) Information Extraction system, allowing quantitative evaluation against a sub- stantial corpus of annotated real-world texts. Extensions to the basic focusing mechanism can be easily tested, resulting in refinements …...

We present an algorithm for bilingual word alignment that extends previous work by treating multi-word candidates on a par with single words, and combining some simple assumptions about the translation process to capture alignments for low frequency words. As most other alignment algorithms it uses co- occurrence statistics as a …...

We describe a trainable and scalable sum- marization system which utilizes features derived from information retrieval, infor- mation extraction, and NLP techniques and on-line resources. The system com- bines these features using a trainable fea- ture combiner learned from summary ex- amples through a machine learning algo- rithm. We demonstrate …...

The study presented here relies on the integrated use of different kinds of knowledge in order to improve first-guess accuracy in non-word context-sensitive correction for general unrestricted texts. State of the art spelling correction systems, e.g. ispell, apart from detecting spelling errors, also assist the user by offering a set …...

We propose a comprehensive theory of code- mixed discourse, encompassing equivalence- point and insertional code-switching, palin- dromic constructions and lexical borrowing. The starting point is a production model of code-switching accounting for empirical observations about switch-point distribution (the equivalence constraint), well-formedness of monolingual fragments, conservation of con- stituent structure and …...

: The paper puts forward a quasi- dependency model for structural analysis of Chinese baseNPs and a MDL-based algorithm for quasi- dependency-strength acquisition. The experiments show that the proposed model is more suitable for Chinese baseNP analysis and the proposed MDL- based algorithm is superior to the traditional ML- based …...

In this paper we study the gain, a naturally-arising statistic from the theory of MEMD modeling [2], as a figure of merit for selecting features for an MEMD language model. We compare the gain with two popular alternatives-empirical activation and mutual information-and argue that the gain is the preferred statistic, …...

This paper describes a semantic classification of Chinese and compares its performance with CKIP's word-class classification on the task of identifying the attributive dependency relation and the unmarked coordinative dependency relation of word bigrams made up from nouns, verbs, and adjectives. 1�...

The errors in Chinese document are mainly caused in two stages - input and editing. There are homonyms or homophones selection error, ambiguous pronunciation error, word segmentation error, similar shape character error, editing operation error and so on. In order to increase the quality of Chinese text, the conventional Chinese …...

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This paper describes a method for determining syntactic structure in coordinate con- structions. It is based on the information taken from semantic similarities, selectional restrictions, and some other linguistic cues. We discuss the role the information plays in resolving ambiguities that appear in coordinate constructions, describe the means of acquiring …...

This paper investigates the use of clustering techniques in word-sense classification, which identifies different contexts that a word was used with the same or similar sense. For simplicity, we have used the hierarchical clustering techniques: single- and complete-linkage, and we showed that the latter is a more suitable technique from …...

Palmer ([4]) demonstrated how Brill's Transformation-based Error-Driven Learning can be applied to word segmentation in various languages. We present experimental results which show that such al- gorithms can achieve satisfactory performance even with a a very dimple initial state annotator We also present two preliminary studies, which suggest that even …...

This paper proposes a new MI-Trigger-based modeling approach to capture the preferred relationships between words over a short or long distance. It is implemented by the concept of trigger pair, which is selected by average mutual information and measured by mutual information. Both the distance-independent(DI) and distance-dependent(DD) MI-Trigger-based models are …...

In order to formulate truth-conditionally - satisfactor* semantics in a composi- tional. manner, - model-iiieoretic semanticists sometimes posit morphology-semantics mismatches. Among them are Kamp and Reyle (1993), who occasionally ignore English plural morphology in constructing their analysis of anaphora. Our goal in this paper is to demonstrate that natural language …...

and complex meanings; whereas Radford's (1990) maturational theory makes no such predictions about Japanese. In replicating O'Grady's (1993) Korean study, I collected both production and comprehension data for Japanese. The data indicates that despite their categorial status (i.e. lexical categories), these determiner-like elements emerge quite late. Since the late emergence …...

This paper proposes a mutliple inheritance type-hierarchical analysis of the Japanese "Internally- Headed Relative Clause" (IHRC) in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). It has been a long standing issue whether the IHRC shares syntactic properties with the EHRC or it is basically a clausal complement structure. This paper claims that …...

Traditionally, Japanese is said to have two kinds of negative word nai, meaning 'not' in English: the nai occurring after a verb or adjective and the nai with an independent status as a word. In contrast to traditional Japanese linguistics, most generative studies of Japanese have made no such distinction …...

Some researches concerning the correspondence between the temporal features in English and other European languages have been done by Bree (1994). The subject of this paper is to collect and induce the temporal features of Chinese. The functionality of the Chinese temporal Coverbs, postpositions and Coverb-postposition pairs will be introduced …...